Re: external mount utilities and utab

Karel Zak
2013-11-04T13:37:37Z

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:21:13PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> When mount runs mount.cifs, /run/mount/utab is not updated, so the
> user mount flag is lost and thus, I can't umount as the user. Running
> mount -i works correctly. Is this a bug in mount.cifs, or should
> mount be recording these options whether it runs the external helper
> or not?

ah.. note, that mount.cifs is not suid on Fedora, only suid mount
helper is mount.nfs on my machine.